Comparability — Burkina Faso [top]

Urban areas include localities with 10,000 inhabitants or more and with sufficient socio-economic and administrative infrastructures.

Comparability — Cote d'Ivoire [top]

Urban areas are defined as places with 10,000 inhabitants or more, or areas between 4,000 and 10,000 inhabitants where more than half of households are engaged in non-agricultural activities.

Comparability — Ethiopia [top]

Urban areas include localities with 2,000 inhabitants or more.

Comparability — Ghana [top]

Urban areas include localities with 5,000 inhabitants or more.

Comparability — India [top]

Urban areas are defined as statutory places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee; and places satisfying the following three criteria simultaneously: (a) a minimum population of 5,000 inhabitants, (b) at least 75 percent of male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits, and (c) a density of population of at least 400 per square kilometer.

Comparability — Indonesia [top]

Urban areas include municipalities ('kota'), regency capitals ('kabupaten') and other places with urban characteristics.

The largest administrative subdivisions in Indonesia are provinces. The 34 provinces of Indonesia are divided into regencies/kabupaten and municipalities/kota, which are further divided into districts and subdistricts.

Comparability — Kenya [top]

Urban areas include municipalities, town councils, and other urban centers with 2,000 inhabitants or more.

Comparability — Niger [top]

From the 2001 Census, urban areas include localities serving as administrative headquarters for departments and "arrondissements", and those with an administrative headquarter with 2,500 inhabitants or more.

Since the 2001 Census, the definitions for department and arrondissement have changed. What were formerly called departments are now referred to as "regions," which represent the largest administrative subdivision in Niger. The 7 regions of Niger were formerly divided into arrondissements. Confusingly, the second-largest administrative subdivision in Niger is called a department.

Comparability — Nigeria [top]

Urban areas include towns with 20,000 inhabitants or more.

Comparability — Uganda [top]

Urban areas include gazetted cities, municipalities, and towns with 2,000 inhabitants or more.